Bursting with energy, musician-dancer Benoit Bourque has been conquering audiences for the past years. Performing first as a member of the famed ensemble Eritage, with…
Artist Profiles: Benoit Bourque
Tag: Canada
Artist Profiles: Chuck Arsenault
Chuck Arsenault (guitar, French horn, tuba, trumpet, vocals, dance) has a degree in music from the University of Prince Edward Island and has performed as…
Artist Profiles: Louise Arsenault
Louise Arsenault (fiddle, harmonica, guitar, vocals, dance ) began to sneak her father’s fiddle out of its case at the age of seven. She was…
Artist Profiles: Hélène Bergeron
Hélène Bergeron (keyboards, guitar, fiddle, vocals, dance) is considered by her peers to be one of Canada’s finest step dancers. Her career as a performer…
Artist Profiles: Albert Arsenault
Albert Arsenault (fiddle, percussion, bass, vocals, dance) is the son of renowned Prince Edward Island fiddler Eddy Arsenault. Albert began to play the fiddle at…
Artist Profiles: Barachois
Barachois was created in the mid-1990s by siblings Hélène Bergeron and Albert Arsenault, cousin Louise Arsenault and unrelated musician Chuck Arsenault. The band played Acadian…
Artist Profiles: Debashis Sinha
Debashis Sinha is a Toronto based percussionist who specializes in the drums of the Arab world, Greece, and Turkey. His ability to uncover the rhythmic…
Artist Profiles: Ed Hanley
Ed Hanley began his tabla (north Indian classical percussion) training in Toronto, Canada with Ritesh Das, and has studied with master drummers Swapan Chaudhuri in…
Artist Profiles: Suba Sankaran
Toronto based vocalist, pianist and percussionist Suba Sankaran’s musical career began at an early age studying south Indian classical music with her father, master drummer…
Artist Profiles: autorickshaw
autorickshaw is a Canadian band led by vocalist Suba Sankaran and tabla player Ed Hanley that blends traditional Indian classical music with jazz and other…